Word: kappel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other members of the council include: Roy L. Ash, president of Litton industries, who will be chairman of the Council; John B. Connally, former governor of Texas; Frederick R. Kappel, chairman of the executive committee of American Telephone and Telegraph; and Richard M. Paget, a member of the New York consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick and Paget...
...underscore the theme he has adopted for his inaugural and touched on in his victory speech-"Bring us together"-Nixon also played host to a diverse cast of characters. In a single day, his guests at the Pierre included A.T.& T. Ex-Chairman Frederick Kappel, Central Intelligence Agency Chief Richard Helms, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. After his meeting, Young quipped, in a reference to Nixon's neglect of the Negro during his campaign: "I wanted to make sure the 'forgotten Americans' he's been talking about...
Frederick R. Kappel, LL.D., retired chairman of the board, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Spokesman for and exemplar of public and corporate conscience...
...regular line of succession to fill an executive-suite vacancy in the headquarters at Manhattan's 195 Broadway. Thus it was hardly a surprise when A.T. & T. directors last week picked President H. I. (for Haakon Ingolf) Romnes, 59, to replace Chairman and Chief Executive Frederick R. Kappel (TIME cover, May 29, 1964), who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 next month...
Tough to Follow. Romnes noted that Kappel will be "a tough act to follow," and there was little argument about that. In the ten years that the outgoing chairman held one of the world's most prestigious corporate posts, A.T. & T. added 30 million telephones, $17 billion in assets, and 3,000,000 shareholders-twice as many as it had when he came into the job. But if company-wide experience is a criterion, A.T. & T. has made another wise choice...